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...sooner had 19,359,642 German ballots re-elected President von Hindenburg for a second seven-year term last week than audacious Adolf Hitler (who had won 13,417,460 votes) began talking of "My victory...
Under iron fiscal decrees, sanctioned by President von Hindenburg, a German citizen receiving income from abroad today must exchange all his foreign money into marks. Author Remarque, who founded and heads a writers' colony at Monte Verita, Switzerland, kept mum there last week when told of the seizure of his 20,000 mark ($4,760) Berlin account...
Thus the brown tide is steadily rising, checked only by a coalition of all other German parties except the Nationalists and Communists. This major fact?the rising Fascist tide?President von Hindenburg's tremendous personal victory tended to obscure last week. In the 1930 Reichstag Election, Herr Hitler's "Joke Party" rose from ninth to second parliamentary rank (TIME, Sept. 12, 1930). On the basis of last week's presidential returns the Fascist Party is now first in Germany. It cannot, of course, assume first rank in parliament until there is another Reichstag Election?which President von Hindenburg and Chancellor...
...Hindenburg? In 1925 Paul von Hindenburg was elected President largely by citizens who voted last week for Herr Hitler: reactionaries. Der Feldmarschall was re-elected last week by Socialists, Catholics and other centrists who bitterly opposed him seven years ago. They considered him then a reactionary stalking horse for the return of Kaiser Wilhelm or for the setting up of an absolute Dictatorship...
...that the world is certain that the highest office in Germany is not to change hands, the way will be paved for a better atmosphere for the work on the disarmament reparations, and debt problems which have been facing Western Europe and especially Germany and France. France regards Hindenburg as a relatively 'safe' candidate as compared with Hitler and it was a curious but significant fact that on the streets of Paris when the election figures were announced showing Hindenburg's large lead over Hitler at the first voting, there were cheers for the man who had been...